A few months ago I was driving home from work and saw a starving looking cat sitting despondently at the side of the road near a busy intersection. I stopped the car but he wouldn't let me near him and wandered across the road to the dumpster outside a pizza shop. I felt so sorry for him as he obviously had been a pet. Then I learned from my daughter that her friend had noticed him a few weeks before looking healthy and he was friendly. We started to leave food and water for him under some trees where I first saw him. I could never catch him either with a trap or carrier but his condition improved and he always ate his food. One night just before I moved house I went to feed him, it was late and I was tired, but he came over to me and let me pet him. After he ate, I managed to pick him up and put him in my car just like that and took him home. He moved house with me and settled into my new home which is on acreage and he loves it here and gets on well with my two other cats. He is so grateful and affectionate. I called him Gandalf as he is grey and and I love him very much. Once he settled in he had all his necessary vet procedures done and is desexed and healthy. I am so glad I rescued him before our winter and where he was living has been bulldozed and is being re-developed so he would have lost even his street home if I had not rescued him when I did.

Pippa Mealings
near Melbourne, Australia